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On the other hand, when the names are used only of God as cause, the prefixes may be left off, since the causality of God is already a procession into the differentiation properly signified by each of the different names.

Wyclif divides proper supposition into material, when the term stand for itself or its sound (as it occurs in "'I' is a pronoun" or "'Iohannes' is trisyllabic"), and formal, when the term stands for what it properly signifies.

Suddenly the music seemed to signify properly as mystery.

In anticipation, Newton indicates how to reconcile this with scripture by observing that, if usage determines the meanings of words, then in ordinary discourse (including the Bible) the terms 'time'spaceace'placeand'motion'motion' are properly understood to signify the relative quantities; only in specialized and mathematical contexts do they denote the absolute quantities.

Upon successful retrieval of this instruction, the robot would turn on an LED to signify that it was properly connected to the base station, and proceed to send an acknowledgement.

As a result, some thinkers in the second half of the thirteenth century held that what the grammarian counts as a proper name is not properly a name, since it does not signify a common nature.

(Properly speaking, the term signified a village moneylender). As Mr. Conquest shows, the theory was a self-serving fantasy; but once the vicious character of the kulaks or supposed kulaks had become established dogma, the stage was set for "dekulakization" - an unlovely term for an even less lovely process, which involved horrifying mass deportations and immense cruelty.

For even though they signify composites, they signify beings with a real, per se unity that properly belongs to the category of substance.

Names signify.

You signify.

But they signify nothing.

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